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  • 2002
  • TV-PG
  • USA
  • 2002
  • TV-PG
  • USA

Summary Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is also newly engaged to Sarah, a fellow teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his widowed mother, who lives nearby. Johnny's life is ne...

  • 2002
  • TV-PG
  • USA
  • 2002
  • TV-PG
  • USA

The Dead Zone

6 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: 2002
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
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Summary Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is also newly engaged to Sarah, a fellow teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his widowed mother, who lives nearby. Johnny's life is ne...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
65
60% Positive
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
65
60% Positive
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Jul 28, 2014
It is absolutely riveting. And Anthony Michael Hall has grown up to be not only a terrific actor, but a hunk and a half.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 28, 2014
What is clear, is that series stars Anthony Michael Hall and Nicole de Boer are fun to watch and that the powers of Hall's character, Johnny Smith, can give rise to any number of imaginative stories. [12 June 2002]
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70
Jul 28, 2014
Humor is woven throughout The Dead Zone, particularly in scenes between Smith and his physical therapist, Bruce Lewis (John L. Adams), who helps update him on what happened during his long sleep. [16 June 2002, p.TV-5]
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 28, 2014
USA's The Dead Zone takes its concept and characters seriously, without any playful subtext or comic relief. So does Hall, who plays his character as David Janssen played "The Fugitive": rarely smiling, always nervous, and only occasionally believed by those around him. There is reason to believe, though, that this Dead Zone may be the real thing.
By David Bianculli FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 28, 2014
Hall lacks Walken's natural aura of strangeness, and he looks a little too well-fed for a guy who has been vegetating for half a decade. But he does manage to make Smith credible and sympathetic. [14 June 2002, p.B51]
By Noel Holston FULL REVIEW
58
Jul 28, 2014
So far, the plot's in place, but Dead Zone's good old gotcha is minimal. And in anything claiming to trace its roots to Stephen King, minimal chill factor could be risky - maybe even the kiss of death. [15 June 2002, p.9]
By Ann Hodges FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 28, 2014
It's just not that suspenseful. [14 June 2002, p.55]
By Phil Rosenthal FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
59% Positive
10 Ratings
35% Mixed
6 Ratings
6% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
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59% Positive
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35% Mixed
6 Ratings
6% Negative
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Production Company:
  • CBS Paramount Network Television
  • Crescent Entertainment
  • Dead Zone Production
  • Lions Gate Television
  • Lionsgate Television
  • Modern Entertainment
  • Paramount Network Television
  • Piller Squared/The Segan Company
  • Piller2
  • The Lloyd Segan Company
Initial Release Date: 2002
Number of seasons: 6 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards

Leo Awards
• 5 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 4 Nominations

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